Eggplant vs Dogs - What's the difference?
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(North America) The plant Solanum melongena .
(North America) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena : an aubergine.
(North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
(US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
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English plurals
(slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat .
a greyhound racing event.
(nautical) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.
(dog)
As nouns the difference between eggplant and dogs
is that eggplant is (north america) the plant solanum melongena while dogs is .As a verb dogs is
(dog).eggplant
English
Alternative forms
* egg-plantNoun
- "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant -this and nigger-that at me," she said.
- What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant ."
Synonyms
* (the plant or its fruit) aubergine (UK), brinjal * (the fruit) melongene (UK)See also
* (wikipedia "eggplant")dogs
English
Noun
- My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.
- I lost money at the dogs last night.